The evidence on the environmental Kuznets curve indicates that national environmental policies differ between high-income and low-income countries, and that as a result of income growth pollution in the Northern hemisphere may be reduced over time at the cost of increasing pollution in the Southern hemisphere. There have been concerns that this process is reinforced by international trade of goods and by foreign direct investment between North and South. More stringent environmental policies in the North force pollution-intensive industries located in the North to raise their prices relative to the prices charged by firms in the South. (more…)
Statistics on national production levels and indicators of environmental pressure have been collected during the past few decad ...
The EU has a set of common rules on industries environmental permissions for industrial installations, which extend also to cover f ...
In terms of aggregate health effects, household solid fuel use is currently the most important source of indoor air pollution i ...
Lack of access to cleaner energy and the negative outwardnesses associated with energy consumption tend to cycle of poverty for ...
Geographers researching the development of nuclear power have shifted emphasis from commercialization, cost, risk, public acceptanc ...
Climatologists generally agree that there is accumulating evidence that a warming trend has been occurring since the mid-1960s. There are rather distinct seasonal and regional climate variations in the lower 48 states of the United States. Livezey and Smith determined that the average national warming trend has been 0.0151F per year. Since 1964, this implies that average annual temperature has increased by approximately one-half of one degree. (more…)
Here, the sensitivity of energy demand to climate is measured two ways. The first method uses elasticities that provide simple summ ...
To determine the effects of past climate trends on global energy consumption, the econometric equations providing the degree day el ...
Establishing the impact of climate change on energy demand requires a measure of heating and cooling requirements. In the United St ...
Energy is consumed by various segments of the economy, including households, commercial establishments, manufacturing enterpris ...
Scientists study Earth’s climate not just from observation but also from a theoretical perspective. Modern-day climate models succe ...
